| SENIOR TOUR Victories |
| (4) 1993 PGA Seniors' Championship. 1994 Doug Sanders
Celebrity Classic. 1995 Dallas Reunion Pro-Am. 2000 LiquidGolf.com
Invitational. |
| International Victories |
| 1994 Senior British Open |
| Other Victories |
| 1990 PGA Club Professional Stroke Play Championship,
1992 Gateway PGA Sectional Championship. |
| Current Year Charles Schwab Cup
Points and Positions |
| 84 (34th) |
| Current Year SENIOR PGA TOUR Money
and Positions |
| $183,788 (28) |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Best Finishes |
| 4--Siebel Classic in Silicon Valley |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Best Round |
| 67 at Round 3, Toshiba Senior Classic, at Round 1, Siebel
Classic in Silicon Valley |
| Current Year SENIOR TOUR Highlights |
| Shared the first-round lead and was in contention for
most of the final round at the Siebel Classic in Silicon
Valley before eventually finishing fourth, two behind
Dana Quigley. |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| T28--1992 PGA Championship. |
| Best BUY.COM Finishes |
| T12--1990 Ben Hogan Greater Ozarks Open. |
| Best 2001 SENIOR TOUR Finishes |
| T6--Emerald Coast Classic |
| 2001 Season SENIOR TOUR |
| Tournaments Entered--23; in money--22; Top-10 finishes--1 |
| 2001 Season Highlights |
| Back woes limited his playing schedule to just 23 events,
the fewest he has played in his nine-year SENIOR TOUR
career...Had just one top-10 finish to his credit. In
March, shot three straight sub-par rounds (68-70-68) to
finish T6 at the Emerald Coast Classic near Pensacola. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2000: Returned to the top 31 after a one-year hiatus
when he finished 22nd with $777,838, his highest money
total since 1995...Ended a victory drought of nearly five
years when he defeated Gary McCord and J.C. Snead in a
three-hole playoff at the LiquidGolf.com Invitational,
his first SENIOR TOUR title since the 1995 Dallas Reunion
Pro-Am (120 starts). Came from three strokes back of Bruce
Summerhays with a final-round 68 at The TPC at Prestancia.
Victory in Sarasota, the fourth of his career, put him
over $5 million in SENIOR TOUR career money. 1999: Scattered
five top-10 finishes over 32 appearances with his best
efforts coming early in the season...On the leaderboard
throughout the American Express Invitational in Sarasota
and eventually finished fourth...Closed with rounds of
66-69 on the weekend at the Las Vegas Senior Classic for
a T4...Partnered with John Mahaffey for a T2 at the Liberty
Mutual Legends of Golf event at the World Golf Village.
1998: Was among the top 10 in the first third of his starts,
highlighted by a runner-up performance at The Tradition...Led
after the first three rounds at Desert Mountain GC, but
carded a two-over 74 on Sunday and finished two strokes
back of Gil Morgan. 1997: Was T3 at the U.S. Senior Open
at Olympia Fields CC near Chicago, his best finish ever
in that event...Shared the first-round lead after opening
with a 69, and followed with rounds of 70-73-70 to finish
two strokes behind Graham Marsh. 1996: Lost to Dale Douglass
on the third playoff hole for the Bell Atlantic Classic
title near Philadelphia...Also T2 at both the PaineWebber
Invitational and the Bank of Boston Senior Classic. 1995:
Easily won the Dallas Reunion Pro-Am with the first of
only two wire-to-wire performances on the circuit that
year. 54-hole score of 13-under 197 was seven shots better
than Dave Stockton and Dave Eichelberger...Almost captured
the Emerald Coast Classic at the end of the season, but
fell to Raymond Floyd in a playoff. 1994: Became the last
of six players to go over the $1 million mark in single-season
earnings at the GOLF MAGAZINE SENIOR TOUR Championship...Holed
a clutch, downhill, 18-foot birdie putt for the fifth-place
finish he needed to eclipse the seven-figure mark for
the only time in his career...Was the SENIOR TOUR's "ironman,"
playing in 36 tournaments and 112 rounds...Defeated Bob
Murphy at the Doug Sanders Kingwood Celebrity Classic...Journeyed
across the pond and won the Senior British Open at Royal
Lytham & St. Annes in England...Led the circuit in top-
10s (25) and Sub-Par Rounds (83). 1993: First SENIOR TOUR
victory was memorable...Made a par on the second playoff
hole to defeat Bruce Crampton at the PGA Seniors' Championship
in just his sixth senior start. 1992: Initially earned
a conditional exemption with a 10th-place finish at the
SENIOR PGA TOUR National Qualifying Tournament. Shot rounds
of 69-66-77-74--286 and then made birdie on the first
playoff hole to earn his position. |
| Personal |
| Raised on a Michigan dairy farm...Didn't play golf until
he taught himself at age 25...Owner of Greenview GC in
Centralia, IL...Jobs prior to golf included iron worker,
assembly-line auto worker and bartender...An accomplished
bowler who once thought about a professional career in
that sport...Says biggest thrill in golf was winning the
1993 PGA Seniors' Championship. |
| SENIOR TOUR Playoff Record |
| 2-2 |
